The Epidemic Diseases (East Punjab Amendment) Act, 1947

764 The Epidemic Diseases (East Punj ab Amendment) Act, 1947 The Epidemic Diseases (E;l;flt 7Punjab Amendment ) Act, Act 1 of 1947 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see East Punjab Government Gazette Extraordinary, 1947, page 87; for proceedings in the Assembly, see East Punjab Legislative Assembly Debates, Vol. I, 1847, pages 212-13. Received the assent of His Excellency the Governor of East Punjab on the 2 4th November, 1947, and was first published in the East Punjab Government Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the Ist December, 1947. ' An Act to amend the tpidemic Discases Act, 1897, in _its application to the East Punjab. s It is hereby enacted as follows:- ' 1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Epidemic Diseases (East Punjab Amendment) Act, 1947. % (2) It shall come into force at once. 2. Amendmen\l of section 2 of Act I110f1897.- After the word "inspection” in cla use (b) of sub-section (2) of section 2 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 the words "vaccination and in- oculation” shall be inserted. 3. Amendment of section 3 of Act 111 of 1897. - The existing secliofi 3 of the Epidemic Dis- eases Act, 1897, shall be renumbered as sub-section (1) of section 3, and after that sub-section as so renumbered the following sub- gection shall be added, namely:- ' "(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), any Magistrate or Bench of Magistrate trying an offence under sub-section (1) may, ifhe or they think fit, try any such offence summarily according to the pr- (;;(;l.lxr)l? prescribed in Chapter XXII of the Code Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 4. Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 0f1947. - The East Punj i i ic Diseases Ordinance, 1947, is hereby repealed. Nifab Préventitit of Epl o o Py - Ny